Carl Franklin

When Carl Franklin made "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress" in the 1990s, it was like a sotto voce announcement of a genuine talent — a low-key director interested in crime fiction but also in character, and race, and the real world. Neither film was a big commercial success, so while Franklin has worked steadily in film and television since then, one suspects it has not been a pick-and-choose career. "Bless Me, Ultima," Franklin's own adaptation of the 1972 Rudolfo Anaya novel set in New Mexico near the end of World War II, finds the director valiantly compressing Anaya's magical-realist tale into something more than a dutiful...

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When Carl Franklin made "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress" in the 1990s, it was like a sotto voce announcement of a genuine talent — a low-key director interested in crime fiction but also in character, and race, and the real...